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Judit is a curator, producer and researcher currently Director of the MFA Fine Art and MFA Curatorial Practice (Art&Design) Programmes at DJCAD, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University of Dundee. 

Judit has Postgraduate Degrees in Art History (BA/MA ELTE, Budapest, 2002), and in Arts Management (MA Dartington College of Arts, University of Plymouth, 2005) and gained her practice-led curatorial PhD in 2017 from Aberystwyth University through an AHRC CDA with the National Museum of Wales archiving and exhibiting artist Ivor Davies' Destruction in Art related performance practice.

Judit has worked as a curator and creative producer before joining Dundee, including at Artpool, Budapest; East Street Arts, Leeds; and WAVEparticle, Glasgow, and has taught in Higher Education Institutions, including Dartington College of Arts; York St John University; and The Glasgow School of Art.

Between 2008 and 2020, Judit has collaborated with artists Emmal Bolland and Tom Rodgers as Gordian Projects, and curated and produced several site-specific installations and performance events, including Contexts (Konteksty), 9th International Festival of Ephemeral Art (Sokolowsko, Poland), The Market of Hidden Labours (York, 2013), Three Points of Contact residency (Glasgow-Penzance-York, 2012), Compass: Festival of Live Art, (Leeds-Sheffield-Hull, 2010), Hidden Art Cornwall (Godolphin House, 2008), Elegia by Roger Bourke (Holy Trinity Church, York, 2008).

She also co-curated major exhibitions, including The Happenstance, Scotland's Collateral Event at the 16th Architecture Biennial, Venice (2019), Left Performance Histories (NGbK, Berlin, 2018) and Silent Explosion: Ivor Davies and Destruction in Art (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 2016).

Since her PhD, Judit has focused her research on developing infrastructure to safeguard
 non-standard artist archives emerging from post-1970s countercultural and networked art practices. She has led two major research projects to date, including What is a Living Archive? Curating the 'unruly' materiality of contemporary art (curatonglivingarchives.network, 2021) and Curating the Digital Attic: A Case Study for Open-Source Approaches to Artists' Archives (2024-2026), the latter as an international research network in partnership with National Library of Scotland, University of Dundee Archives, National Irish Visual Art Library and Artpool Art Research Center at Museum of Fine Art, Budapest.

Judit has led the Creative Economies Knowledge Exchange Hub at the Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities in 2023-2024, is Member of CHEAD Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange Alliance served and Trustee of Generator Projects, Dundee and The Alastair Gray Archive, Glasgow.


Judit’s writings have been published by Routledge, Palgrave MacMillan, Taylor&Francis, Brill, Trancript Verlag, Occassional Papers and Apparatus Journal.
 

 

Research interests

 

  • Living archives, anarchives
  • Curatorial practice as conservation
  • Artist archives 
  • Performance art and networked art practices
  • Post-1970s counterculture 

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, Exhibiting the Ivor Davies Archive of Destruction in Art: an exploration of curating historical performance art in the Museum, Aberystwyth University

1 Oct 201330 Sept 2017

Award Date: 13 Apr 2018

Master of Arts, The Problems and Opportunities of Extending the Life of Performance Art through Archiving and Curating Civil Twilight, University of Plymouth

20042005

Award Date: 12 Oct 2005

Bachelor of Arts, Eötvös Loránd University

19972002

Award Date: 1 Jun 2002

External positions

External Examiner, University of Plymouth

1 Aug 202531 Jan 2028

Trustee

23 Apr 202331 May 2025

Trustee

1 Dec 2022 → …

Creative Economies Knowledge Exchange Hub Lead, Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities

Jun 2022Sept 2024

External Examiner, University of Southampton

1 Sept 202131 Dec 2025

Research Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (RIKE) , Council for Higher Education in Art and Design (CHEAD)

1 Nov 2020 → …

Advisory Board Member

31 Mar 20201 Jan 2024

Keywords

  • NX Arts in general

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  4. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
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  6. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
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  8. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
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  9. SDG 13 - Climate Action
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  10. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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